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PUBLIC MARKS from decembre with tag vlc

2014

VLC is probably the most versatile video player you can download due to its amazing ability to play almost any codec you throw at it. This alone makes this app a worthy addition to your software suite. While most people use VLC as a simple video player, it is so much more than that. VLC is the Swiss Army Knife of video players with features that are hidden and unknown to the casual user.

If you have VLC installed on the local machine, great! Use that to your avantage as you reconfigure the style. You'll still need to change the address so you can actually use this style with a remote machine, and you'll have to add other addresses if you are accessing more than one machine at any given time. Simply go to the web interface, copy the address and paste it in where it says "http://ip:port" or add the values in manually.
If you don't know how to enable the web interface in VLC for remote control, you'll need to learn that first before this style has any relevance to you. Everything can be found online.

2010

VLC media player has an amusing ability, targeted especially towards nerds, to playback movies in ASCII art. The option to enable this is right there in the “Preference” window, but most users are unaware of it because they usually don’t dig through the settings of the software. To enable ASCII mode, open VLC media player and click on Tools>Preferences. Open the section “Video” section and under “Output” select “Color ASCII art video output” from the drop down menu. Save it. Now play any video file to enjoy the ASCII art.

Play in ASCII mode: VLC media player has an amusing ability, to playback movies in ASCII art. To enable ASCII mode, open VLC media player and click on Tools>Preferences. Open the section “Video” section and under “Output” select “Color ASCII art video output” from the drop down menu. Save it. Now play any video file to enjoy the ASCII art.